Monthly Archives: January 2026

FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 9 – data backup to AWS S3 and Google Drive with rclone
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22 January 2026

In the previous post of the Home NAS on FreeBSD setup series, we got acquainted with restic – a utility for working with backups that supports encryption, snapshots, and change history; see FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – backup of NFS and Samba data with restic. However, in addition to archival data in S3, I… Read More »

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Arch Linux: “mysterious” DNS timeouts and “in search of the Ethernet truth”
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20 January 2026

For a couple of months now, my work laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 running Arch Linux, has been having trouble opening new websites – for the first 10-15 seconds, the site loads in “pieces”, for example: But then it “wakes up”, and everything starts working perfectly: Finally, when I started setting up a… Read More »

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FreeBSD: Home NAS, part 8 – NFS and Samba data backups using restic
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5 January 2026

Actually, almost everything regarding my home NAS setup has been done – there is VPN access from various networks, different shares are available, and the security has been slightly tuned. Two main things remain: monitoring and backups. Having a ZFS mirror on two disks with regular ZFS snapshots is, of course, great, but it is… Read More »

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TCP/IP: SYN flood attack on the RTFM server, and “Hacker News hug of death”
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2 January 2026

Got an alert from the monitoring system this morning, indicating that the blog is down: Well, I thought: another one DDoS, not the first time. Investigating the issue I went to the Cloudflare admin, enabled the Under Attack Mode, and started the investigation. Checked the requests: I think, okay, it’s simple – requests are coming… Read More »

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